So, why did Michele Bachmann vote yes on the resolution saying that Obama was born in Hawaii?

[ck4829]

Oh no, the birthers lost Michele Bachmann! But why?

[JI7]

1. she won in 2008 with less than 50 percent of the votes

and less than 3 percent more votes than her opponent.

below is from wiki. without the indie candidate she may have lost. and she has had many other moments since that election. some in the party probably told her if she doesn't vote this way she will lose next year.

<With all precincts reported, Bachmann won 46.41% to 43.43%.<32> Because Tinklenberg was running as a DFLer in the Democratic primary this allowed candidate Bob Anderson to run in the Independence party primary unopposed despite not having the Independence endorsement. Anderson received 10% of the vote.>

[azurnoir]

3. Minnesota's allowing 3rd party indies is a sword that cuts both

ways it's good for democracy but usually really bad for dems, that is really how the Franken-Colemen recount controversy got started there was an indie named dean barkley that got 487,000 mostly dem votes without him Franken would have won by a landslide

[zbdent]

2. she was assured that her uninformed supporters would not be informed

of the vote?

[Beacho]

4. She probably thought Hawaii was a foreign country

just my guess

[denem]

6. PLEASE EDIT the Poll for THIS option

:evilgrin:

[ck4829]

9. I wish I could, too much time has passed though

[rucky]

5. She saw a chance at hypocrisy and instinctively went for it.

[optimal-tomato]

7. "I push-ed a button, but I don't 'amember which one?!"

[Island Blue]

8. She didn't understand the question. n/t

[quaker bill]

10. Because someone got to her

and told her that making a stink to attempt to remove a "whereas" clause from a non-binding resolution was just too petty and stupid even for her.

I wish she had proposed an ammendment to strike the clause, because there would then have been an up or down vote on the single issue. This is why someone got to her to stop it, because this would have created a definite record. Instead they can now say that they voted to celebrate 50 years of statehood, and all the rest of the resolution is non-binding.

However, the conspiracy theorists will likely be unimpressed and find that their representatives sold them out. Their entire argument hangs on vapor, and this resolution, as meaningless as it is, is far more substantive than most of their claims.

[Mass]

11. Cantor did his job? I know as Democrats, it may seem hard to believe a whip does its job,

but I would think that they know better than letting their guys and gales vote stupidly.

If only Dems could learn.

[ThomWV]

12. She is a Superior Being - Bachmann operates at a level of crazy far above the Birthers